Egypt's economy is increasingly precarious, with dwindling foreign-exchange reserves and nagging unemployment.
Those who left then reported that the situation was becoming increasingly desperate with dwindling food supplies forcing the besieged city's remaining residents to eat grass, shrubs, rats, and stray cats to survive.
With the United States launching air strikes in Afghanistan, Pentagon officials have grown increasingly worried about the dwindling supply of drones.
As the night progressed, Ritchie was surrounded by a dwindling but increasingly convivial group of celebrants, and the mood grew noticeably more up-tempo.
By Internet standards, and even by the standards of the other X-rated men's magazines -- a dwindling and increasingly unprofitable business these days -- the Playboy photo spreads are practically chaste.
Several weeks ago, the mayor wrote a $500,000 check to help keep the dwindling and increasingly imperiled State Senate Republicans from losing their grip on power, according to an official with direct knowledge of the donation.
There is a real danger of Irish society being hollowed out, with a discredited political elite holding nominal power and no legitimacy while an angry, disoriented, heavily indebted and increasingly poor population chase dwindling jobs.
If the Republican Party cannot expand its policies to support diversity, it will find itself dwindling and increasingly irrelevant.
Indeed, the problem is two-fold: increasingly, such structures are dwindling as a result of the crisis in informal caregivers, while the assistance required, due to patient complexity, calls for an increasing degree of skill.
Dioceses in New York and New Jersey are closing elementary schools and planning to consolidate parishes; the ranks of priests are dwindling; finances are increasingly dire; and the sexual abuse scandal has left a lingering scar on the churchs public image.
